french history movies page 2

1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond (2018)
7.3 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the May events in France, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F....

10 mai 1981 : Changer la vie ? (2021)
8 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie, History

Fourty years ago, in May 1981, with François Mitterrand's election, some people were letting themselves dream about a better life while others were...

Algeria 1943: A Colony Under Vichy Control (2022)
7 / 10

Documentary, History, War

World War II, June 1940. France has fallen and suffers the relentless boot of Nazi Germany. But Algeria, the prized French colony in North Africa,...

Napoleon: Destiny and Death (2021)
7.2 / 10

Documentary, Animation, History, TV Movie

May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to take his last breath. The son of a Corsican family,...

Les Trésors de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (2020)
9 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie

The National Library of France is the guardian of priceless treasures that tell our history, our illustrious thinkers, writers, scholars and artists....

De Gaulle bâtisseur (2020)
9 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Chambord: The Castle, the King and the Architect (2015)
8 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Chambord, the most impressive castle in the Loire Valley, in France, a truly Renaissance treasure, has always been an enigma to generations of...

Les Scandales de « La Religieuse » (2023)
8 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie

Released in 1796 posthumously, The Nun, a novel that Diderot did not dream of publishing during his lifetime, as he knew it to be revolutionary,...

Napoleon’s James Bond (2017)
5.5 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Charles Louis Schulmeister (1770-1853) was a smuggler and a revolutionary, but also a chief of police and Napoleon Bonaparte's favorite spy. A look...

Une si belle époque ! La France d'avant 1914 (2019)
7.7 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer (2019)
5 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plot twist. Politician. General De Gaulle's shadow....

Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément... Les Présidents et les Français (2019)
8 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Genie Français – Les Fortresses de Vauban (2020)
0 / 10

Documentary

Des femmes au salon - Aux sources de l'émancipation féminine (2022)
7 / 10

Documentary, History

Focusing on five of them, this documentary pays tribute to the wealthy women who, under the Ancien Régime, promoted scholars and artists, and paved...

Paris on the Seine (1941)
0 / 10

Documentary

A history of the bridges of Paris, through modern views and historical engravings.

Chambord: The Leonardo Da Vinci Mystery (2018)
8.7 / 10

Documentary, History

A building lost in the midst of a 5 000 hectare park, that's the equivalent of the surface of Paris, Chambord is the castle of all superlatives....

La Ve, une constitution sur mesure ? (2018)
0 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Versailles' Dirty Secrets (2016)
10 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie

The chateau of Versailles is believed to have been a dirty palace: a place where everyone tossed the contents of their chamber pots from the windows...

Robespierre (2016)
0 / 10

History

A still drawing film on the personality of Robespierre and the French Revolution.